Ordinary people who have had terrifying life-changing encounters with UFOs and alien life can now come forward without the fear of ridicule. Encounter: UFO s1e3
Missing time, lost memory, deep emotional and sometimes physical trauma … They are all too real. ibid.
But many abductees are reluctant to tell their story. ibid.
Scotland, 1980: Helen [Moon], her parents and her three children went on their annual road-trip to Scotland. But their idyllic journey would soon turn to terror. What they say they witnessed would impact them for the rest of their lives. ibid.
‘It was a black craft. It was triangular and it just slowly rose through the trees. It was totally totally silent.’ ibid. Helen
A new dimension of fear when they are seen at high altitude from the window of an aircraft. Astonishing footage of mile-high controntations captured by pilots and passengers have given us a new up-close look at the unimaginable. Encounter: UFO s1e4
‘I assumed at the time they were a new formation or a new type of jet … So I was baffled by the fact that they did not have any tails … They passed almost directly in front of me.’ ibid.
‘Mass sightings are cases on steroids where we don’t just have one or two individuals, we may have dozens if not hundreds, perhaps evens thousands of people encountering something in the same time frame.’ Encounter: UFO s1e5, comment
Phoenix Lights: One of the biggest sightings in UFO history happened in the desert state of Arizona. But what hundreds of people saw was no mirage. ibid.
Farmington, New Mexico: ‘Hundreds of people saw hundreds of UFOs over their town.’ ibid. comment
‘Spherical oval-shaped objects that were intelligently moving across the sky.’ ibid.
Phoenix Lights: The massive object didn’t look or behave like anything from our planet. ibid.
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1967: ‘Lo and behold here comes this orange orb … ten feet above the water tracing the shoreline.’ ibid. Chris Styles
The strange foam on the water’s surface, the piercing smell of sulphur, locals start to wonder, What was this craft? ibid.
Houston, Texas, 2014: ‘I was seeing some crazy stuff up there in the sky … I knew then and there I had something extraordinary … I’m going to let the world tell me what this is.’ ibid. Andrew Pena
Validated by dozens of eye-witnesses around Houston all reporting the same thing: a cluster of bright lights in the sky. ibid.
Did these craft choose to be seen? ibid.
What happens when someone encounters a UFO close up, one that actually landed here on Earth? And potentially life threatening. Encounter: UFO s1e6
This region of Wales is also known for its frequent sightings of aircraft that are completely silent. ibid.
Broad Haven Wales, February 4th 1977: Its most famous case involved an actually UFO landing that garnered a flurry of media attention nationwide. ibid.
‘The drawings that the children produced were very similar.’ ibid.
Pentyrch Incident, 2016: A triangluar-shaped craft … ‘Like it came through a veil into our world.’ … The large triangular-shaped craft appears to be landing. Caz then hears more military aircraft approaching. ibid. witness Caz Clarke
‘I was stood in shock. I was so afraid for my safety … It turned my hair white overnight. Completely white.’ ibid. Caz
Caz had the landing site tested for radiation. ibid.
Scattered across our planet are powerful spots that experience high levels of UFO activity and repeated visits. From an island off the coast of California to ancient English fields to a remote valley in Norway. Something about these places seems to attract mysterious visitors. Encounter: UFO s1e7
They keep coming back and we don’t know what they want. ibid.
Catalina Island, USA: ‘Off the coast of California. And for many many years inexplicable craft have been seen above the island as well as in the waters around it.’ ibid. Zimmermann
Catalina Island: ‘They were moving. It wasn’t a plane. At that point those three lights held their position. They had definitely got closer to us …’ ibid. Jonathan Fox camping with friends
Wiltshire was also home to a frightening UFO encounter. The town of Warminster: 1964: ‘The most atrocious sounds like their chimney exploded and their entire roof was ripped off. They couldn’t find a cause for it and it continued month after month. What began with these sinister sounds progressed into actually sighting UFOs.’ ibid. Zimmermann
‘It wasn’t just UFO sightings. There were all kinds of weird sounds, mysterious explosions, vibrations, buzzing noises …’
Even more disturbing, there is proof that these harrowing encounters with suspected extraterrestrial craft and alien beings are real. Encounter: UFO s1e8
Ozarks, USA: ‘They were all about three, three and a half feet tall. They were all grey.’ ibid. Terry Lovelace
For Terry Lovelace a camping trip turned into a UFO abduction nightmare when he finds himself aboard an alien craft. ibid.
Colares Island, Brazil, 1977: One of the strangest and most terrifying UFO cases in Brazil’s history.
‘In 1977 people would see UFOs, and one type of craft would attack them using a beam of light. Their blood was sucked out of their bodies.’ ibid. A J Gevaerd, UFO researcher
‘These beams of light did not only burn, they left puncture wounds.’ ibid. Zimmermann